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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chæronea: Translated [...] out of French into English, by Sir Thomas North Knight.

by: Plutarch; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?

Publication date: 1579

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Parallel Lives, Greece -- Biography, Rome -- Biography, Rome (Empire)

Publisher: London : Printed by Richard Field

Collection: opensource

Language: English

Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch]; Thomas North (translator), The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chæronea: Translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amiot Abbot of Bellozane, Bishop of Auxerre, One of the Kings Priuie Counsell, and Great Almner of France: With the Liues of Hannibal and Scipio African: Translated out of Latine into French by Charles de l’Escluse, and out of French into English, by Sir Thomas North Knight. (alternative 1st edition) (London: Printed by Richard Field, 1579; OCLC 1013894785).

The true 1st edition of the work was published under the following imprint: Imprinted at London: By Thomas Vautrollier and Iohn Wight, 1579; OCLC 926218588.

Source: Google Books (https://books.google.com/books?id=JREQ5Sok-p8C&printsec=frontcover).

1 online resource ([14], 1175 pages).

Head-pieces (with inlaid portraits), initials.

Contains "The lives of Annibal and Scipio African (attributed to Donato Acciajuoli) translated into French by Charles de la Sluce, and Englished by Thomas North" (p. 1131-1172) and "The comparison of Annibal with P. Scipio African" (p. 1173-1175) by Simon Goulart. Later editions contain still further interpolations.